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http://crunchbanglinux.org – hey all. i'm new to the forums though not to the #!'ers on irc who know me as 'bluejeans'  /me pauses to say hi to everbody..anyway. i have been experimenting over the last couple of months with debian based builds of #! both with lenny and squeeze. i have been pretty happy with the setup and just recently started playing with a remastering tool so as to be able to share the fun.this build is based on debian squeeze which is still in testing but, as you know (if you know debian,) its quite stable. this was build within the last week so all packages (HowTos)

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Submitted by ziyi on 07/15/2010 – Made popular on 07/15/2010

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The setup

I run a Debian Squeeze host that I use to build a multilanguage project (python, java, php...) and generate custom packages (debian and RPM) automatically (through jenkins)

The problem

The target distributions of those Debian packages are Etch, Lenny and Squeeze.

Holla :DI just found out about crunchbang. I like that its Debian based.I'm been using Debian for the past 2 years, really liked it, I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a new laptop as Debian Lenny was getting a bit old, and I wanted to try out Ubuntu.

 We are seeing dozens and dozens of posts on the internet about Ubuntu. I am not telling that I dislike Ubuntu, but I think that a lot of people are not aware that Ubuntu is Debian based. News about Debian is scarce. We are waiting for a new stable release and Squeeze is hopefully becoming stable this year.

The first CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf" development builds are now available for testing. For anyone unaware, these are the first builds to be based on Debian Wheezy sources. Wheezy is the current testing branch of Debian and therefore is likely to experience changes, bugs and breakages.

Yesterday evening, Philip Newborough announced the immediate availability for testing of the second Alpha release of the upcoming CrunchBang Linux 10 distribution. Dubbed Statler, the freshly cooked CrunchBang Linux 10 Alpha 2 build is now based on the Debian Squeeze operating system and, in sync with its repositories.

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Almost all the major Linux distributions are using LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. Today, it has been announced that Debian Squeeze too will get LibreOffice in the backports.LibreOffice has been available in Debian Wheezy and Debian Sid for a while now. But in the stable release, Debian Squeeze, it is not available.

dist-upgrade 2 years 34 weeks ago

so i've had debain squeeze installed previously. i ran Code: aptitude dist-upgrade because i heard squeeze is now in frozen. i ran Code: lsb_release -a and got this

Code: Distributor ID:    Debian Description:    Debian GNU/Linux testing (squeeze) Release:    testing Codename:    squeeze why does it still say testing? shouldnt it say frozen?

Debian 2 years 31 weeks ago

Again I'm thinking about ditching Ubuntu for Debian as a base system. Out of experience I thought I'd ask questions before actually doing so :P1. Which branch is best to use? Stable, testing (squeeze?) or unstable (sid?)2.